Quote - Yup, no reason to try to motivate DAZ to do anything about that. That's just the way it is so we'll just have to except it and muttle along. Blondie, there has to be a point between the extreme case you point out and complete apathy. For me that midpoint is explaining DAZ just isn't known for their documentation. DAZ doesn't like having a bad rep they know how to change it ;)

Oh, I'm not advocating "apathy" at all.  But with all the complaining that has already been done, DAZ is well aware that failing to produce a manual was a serious mistake-- and if that isn't enough to motivate DAZ to produce one, then endless yapping in the forums won't do it, either.

It's one thing to "remind" DAZ now and then-- but repeatedly asking "Where's the manual?" is another thing entirely.  It's acting like a whiny little kid on a road-trip who asks, every five minutes, "Are we there yet?"  It doesn't make the car go any faster or the journey any shorter; all it does is annoy the hell out of everybody else in the car.  After hours of that-- to say nothing of days-- you want to choke the kid.

A very young child has an excuse for that, because he doesn't understand distances or the time necessary to travel them.  An adult has no excuse for acting like that, and if he does, he's being willfully and deliberately obnoxious-- and deserves to be smacked down for it.

I just looked at my old Carrara 2 manual.  It's 593 pages long, including the index.  Even if you have a team of experienced manual-writers, it takes many months-- probably a year or more-- to produce something like that.  It has to go through several drafts, it has to be tested on people who know nothing about the software and thus can point out confusing parts or missing steps, it has to be revised to correct whatever problems are found, it has to be proofread, etc., etc., etc.

An adult should know that and behave accordingly.  Asking for a status update once every month or two is reasonable.  Yelling "Where's the manual?" every day or so is not.